point of danger. In the rearing of skyscrapers, it is now usual to have a passenger at New York, who is about to start for Chicago on a fast the Pennsylvania, which two years later was persuaded by Professor Bell a temporary wire strung vertically, so that the architect may stand on the current is distributed wholly by telephoned orders. To give New York which had a wire from dock to office in 1877; and the first railway was become the chief beneficiary of the art of telephony. It has one hundred liner. office. It is one of the most incredible miracles of telephony that telephones, and twenty thousand miles of wire--a more ample system than and seventy-five exchanges, four hundred operators, thirteen thousand The first steamship line to take notice of the telephone was the Clyde, himself to give it a trial in Altoona. Since then, this railroad has warship. Its wires are waiting at the dock and the depot, so that a tourist may sit in his stateroom and talk with a friend in some distant city requires twelve private exchanges and five hundred and twelve express, may telephone to Chicago from the drawing-room of a Pullman. He the seven million electric lights that have abolished night in that a telephone exchange as though he were a pilot at the wheel of an ocean centres. Minute by minute, its flow is guided by an expert, who sits at himself, on the swiftest of all trains, will not arrive in Chicago for three hundred feet up in the air. And in the electric light business, telephones. All the power that creates this artificial daylight is generated at a single station, and let flow to twenty-five storage the city of New York had in 1896. To-day the telephone goes to sea in the passenger steamer and the the ground and confer with a foreman who sits astride of a naked girder